This site provides information on Reysen Competition Advice & Advocacy (RCAA), a boutique law firm that focusses on competition law related issues. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, and Brussels, Belgium, RCAA lawyers are experts in EU and German competition law as well as the provision of strategic advice on the impact of competition rules and public policy on commercial strategies on a world-wide level.

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FOCUS-SPEZIAL - "Deutschlands Top-Anwälte 2017"

Global Competition Review - GCR 100

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RCAA is headed by Brussels-based Marc Reysen, a former O’Melveny & Myers partner, and Evelyn Niitväli, previously of Buntscheck in Munich, who remains based in Germany. This year they were joined by Weil Gotshal & Manges and Flick Glocke alumnus Stephan Wachs, who was appointed as counsel, primarily working out of the Frankfurt office – evidence that the firm is growing its practice “one step at a time”, Reysen says. So far, RCAA has bagged some impressive confidential work in the behavioural sphere that one would typically expect to be handled by a much larger shop. In mergers, the firm is acting for Airdata in a General Court appeal against the DG Comp clearance of Telefónica/E-Plus, and bagged Phase I German clearance for Fraport as it set up a cargo-handling joint venture with WTS. The team is also involved in the Ball/Rexam deal, and represented Nestlé during a Federal Cartel Office investigation of information-sharing arrangements.

Clients enthusiastically praise Evelyn Niitväli of RCAA Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB, as one affirms: “She communicates with precision and confidence, and always makes it a point to give advice that fits her clients' products, services, corporate culture and legal needs.” Her practice encompasses merger control and cartel proceedings, antitrust compliance and co-operation and distribution agreements. She advised Winterhoff on the merger control aspects of its acquisition by AL-KO.